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EHR-Business Owner Productivity Measured In A Single Number

As a Business Owner do you know your Effective Hourly Rate (EHR)? During my time as a Business Coach over the past 20+ years I’ve used EHR-Effective Hourly Rate across more than 70 different industries to give Coaching Clients, and myself a quick consistent measure for how productive they are at building a more valuable…

9 Warning Signs You’re a Hub-and-Spoke Owner
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9 Warning Signs You’re a Hub-and-Spoke Owner

If you were to draw a picture that visually represents your role in your business, what would it look like? Are you at the top of a traditional Christmas-tree-like organizational chart, or are you stuck in the middle of your business, like a hub in a bicycle wheel?  Business owners generally avoid hub-and-spoke self-managed businesses…

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What a Study of 14,000 Businesses Reveals About How You Should Not Be Spending Your Time

In an analysis of more than 14,000 businesses, a new study finds the most valuable companies take a contrarian approach to the boss doing the selling. Who does the selling in your business? My guess is that when you’re personally involved in doing the selling, your business is a whole lot more profitable than the…